In the first part of my Tallinn Shopping Guide about the best places to go shopping in Tallinn, I talked about the Viru Keskus shopping centre, a very convenient Mall as it is right next to the Old Town.

Today I'll tell you about a much smaller shopping (arcade) centre,Foorum Keskus, also in the city centre and also about Estonia's largest shopping centre, the Rocca al Mare Mall. In my Tallinn haul post I uploaded earlier, you can see my purchases from both Viru Keskus and Rocca al Mare.

The Foorum shopping arcade is really close to Viru Keskus. If you're looking for clothes, you might want to check out the French Morgan, the DanishS'NOBand Replay. As for cosmetics, there's a Lush store and also a beauty supplies store calledThaya, a place you may also want to go into as it has both a display from the AmericanPalladioand another one ofSpa Ritual, for those who love painting their nails. Unlike what we're used to here in Spain, I didn't get the impression in Estonia that foreign brands being imported into the country being overinflated in the process (as OPI is here, for instance). I didn't get anything in the end, but I thought it was something worth mentioning. The average price in the Palladio counter was about 6 EUR, with Spa Rituals lacquers being more expensive, though I'd say it's a brand one splurges in the US, too (particulary when you're surrounded by lots and lots of dirt cheap brands).

And finally we have theRocca al Mare. Unlike the other two, it's quite far and you'd either need a car or use public transport to get there (in my case, Trolleybus no. 7). It's opposite Tallinn's Zoo I mentioned in my previous travel post.

As for clothes, again we have Seppälä and a Stockmann Outlet. The truth is I didn't get in any of them, but I did take a couple of pics, as you can see. There was also a huge bookstore from the same chain I visited at Viru Keskus (and where I bought one of the books I've brought home from this trip). It had an online café too.There was another Accesorize (a pricey store, imo, though with cute stuff), Esprit and a lot more. I've already mentioned that I'm a mess when it comes to finding my bearings, like 'an octopus in a garage' and here's an example of it: I thought I had already taken a complete tour of the place when I turned a corner and there it was: another hall full of stores, with a Marks & Spencer store among them. LOL.

At the Rocca al Mare, we have some of the stores that were also present at Viru Keskus, like the soap storeStenders. Pricewise, I didn't find them particularly expensive but within what you would expect to pay in this kind of store, about 4.50 EUR per soap. They had this cute goat milk soap that resembled a fried egg, ;) If you're into soaps and body care, there's another The Body Shop store for you.There was this herbalist's and organic products store with an EcoTools display. And of course, marox had to snap a pic of the shop window, even if it was from the outside.

If we had the Kaubamaja Ilumaailm perfumery at Viru, at the Rocca al Mare we have two smaller stores worth a visit:I.L.U.andIdeaal Kosmeetika. The first one is the biggest and offers a wider range of brands: Too Faced, L'Oreal, Max Factor, Chanel or ArtDeco, but also others more hard to find likeThe Balm(very similar in its packaging to Benefit), Alessandro, Sally Hansen, Make up Store orCollistar, with also room for some nordic brands likeLumene. Next to the Alessandro counter there was some sort of 'nails bar'.

A visit to thePrismasupermarket could be a good idea too, as they had some interesting stuff in the cosmetics and beauty aisle. I bought the Wild and Crazy lacquers I showed you in theTallinn haulpost and they also had Manhattan, among others.

But besides getting some make up goodies for us, even from the supermarket, I bought Molly a packet of cat food, the one that comes with gravy. It has salmon and trout and we've waited until Marian came over to give her her present. I think she liked it very much, lol.When we went to Berlin, we also brought her some German cat food (from DM, btw) and it was also better than the one we can get here, in the sense that fish or meat it all looks the same. The German one seemed really good, hehe.

@Smaltoitaliano: It is Italian or Arabic sounding to me, yes. I like to try things I'll probably never get to try otherwise (unless through a swap). Molly likes our getting presents for her very much, lol.